I was in an alpha test this past weekend and I really liked it. It is a lot more Factorio than Ark in my opinion, more like a first person Factorio game. I didn't go very deep into the test because I was sold based on what I had already seen. It is very obviously influenced by Factorio, but it's a very different experience in first person.

Thanks for the insight. Videos of people actually playing looked like your standard (well, not standard, but typical? It certainly looks cool) survival game. Land alone (or with co-op, or coop, in this case) beat stuff up, harvest their organs, mine resources, build stuff, repeat. I get that there is a factory aspect involved, but early game felt (looked) very ARK/Don't Starve-ish.

Well I opened up a ticket. I didn't fail the login that much. Hmm, when I googled it I didn't come up with that, my google-fu must be failing . I also just used my backup email to buy it, so at some point today it'll be done downloading.